Hardcore Capitalist's Perspective - 11/23/2010

• Passenger Privacy Backlash Targets TSA Workers Personally
  While the TSA's physical molestation of passengers is far more onerous than any verbal abuse passengers may sling at the TSA, we ought to make sure our anti-TSA movement is a civil one. Think Rosa Parks. The TSA agents themselves are, after all, human beings like us. By making our opposition to the TSA a personal attack against the employees themselves, we drive them to unite with the government passing down the orders. But if we remain respectful, we might be able to sway the individual TSA agents to disobey the orders they are receiving from above.
• TSA Gropes Could Spread STDs
  This is an issue civil libertarians have been raising for some time now, but which has curiously not really caught on. What kind of risk is there that diseases like herpes might be spread due to TSA workers touching hundreds of people a day with the same blue gloves? If you're participating in the Opt-Out Day, then perhaps on top of opting out of the nude scanners, you should also ask any TSA worker that wants to touch you to at least put on clean gloves first.
• Obama Pledges American Blood to Defend South Korea
  While well-intentioned, Obama's promise of American lives in defense of South Korea is unnecessary. The South Korean military can wipe the Northern government off the map with ease, if it so desires. Let the recent hostilities serve as ever more reason to get our 30,000 troops out of that delicate situation. This is not our battle. Hopefully the current situation on the Korean peninsula can be solved with as little bloodshed as possible, and hopefully the North Korean government falls as soon as possible.
• Virginia Battles For Its State Rights
  Legislators in Virginia are pushing for an Amendment to the Constitution that would allow federal laws to be repealed by a two-thirds vote of the states. This would be a wonderful idea, but, in fact, it would be superfluous. If the state government of Virginia feels a federal law is wrong, they have the right to nullify it, just as the Northern states nullified the fugitive slave laws in the 1800s.
• Revealed: Julia Child Loved McDonalds
  I'm with Julia Child on this one. Fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King are wonderful creations. They provide the lower and middle classes with good-tasting sustenance at very affordable prices, just as Walmart does in the realm of consumer goods. And to those who say McDonalds food is "not sustenance," I ask: who would live longer--someone in the middle of the desert with no food whatsoever, or someone in the middle of the desert with a supply of Big Macs? Sure, McDonalds isn't the healthiest food in the world, but to say that it doesn't sustain you (not "real food," as they say) is pure nonsense.
• UK Caps Foreign Workers
  Comments David Shellenberger: "The U.K. is making the same mistake the U.S. has made in limiting the number of skilled workers allowed to enter the country. Both skilled and unskilled workers enrich a country, and their immigration should be welcomed. The protectionist policies are counter-productive, since employers will move operations to the countries where labor is available and markets are freer."

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